drssg
Veteran Member
We seem to have a few computer people that hang around here, so I thought I'd give this a shot.
I have a few network cameras and a computer on my home network that I occasionally want to access when I'm not at home, using my iPhone or Windows 10 laptop. The need is not frequent or critical enough to justify any sort of monthly service fee.
I have a three-year-old Netgear Nighthawk X4S R7800 router, and I have configured it multiple times to do what I want. The router has built-in support for the OpenVPN client, and I don't need to do any port forwarding to get to specific devices from outside my network. The problem is that something periodically gets messed up, and it stops working. I recently went through the configuration process again, and I can't get it to work. The router, phone, and laptop all get software updates over time, so I can't really pin down what causes the issue.
The router might be having other issues, too. I need to reboot it periodically to maintain internet access, so I'm considering swapping out the router anyway.
Does anyone have favorable experience with a router that has good built-in support for what I'm trying to do? Or is there a better solution that I'm missing?
I have a few network cameras and a computer on my home network that I occasionally want to access when I'm not at home, using my iPhone or Windows 10 laptop. The need is not frequent or critical enough to justify any sort of monthly service fee.
I have a three-year-old Netgear Nighthawk X4S R7800 router, and I have configured it multiple times to do what I want. The router has built-in support for the OpenVPN client, and I don't need to do any port forwarding to get to specific devices from outside my network. The problem is that something periodically gets messed up, and it stops working. I recently went through the configuration process again, and I can't get it to work. The router, phone, and laptop all get software updates over time, so I can't really pin down what causes the issue.
The router might be having other issues, too. I need to reboot it periodically to maintain internet access, so I'm considering swapping out the router anyway.
Does anyone have favorable experience with a router that has good built-in support for what I'm trying to do? Or is there a better solution that I'm missing?